• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.27-34
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• 2002

There is much interest on information communications owing to the rapid development of network and IT(Information Technology). Analog signals are converted into digital signals for information communications. However, it is very difficult to completely erase the distortion induced during the conversion of analog signals such as voices and images into digital signals. Existing audio graphic equalizer requires very complex processes to calculate the gain and coefficients of the higher-order filter which is required to generate natural sound and to satisfy the need of each person. Unfortunately it is uneconomical and very difficult to embed the existing digital audio equalizer in the system because of the complexity of the existing digital audio equalizer for high quality sound. This paper discusses the design of a new digital audio graphic equalizer(DAGEQ) which can improve system performance and the quality of audio sound, and can be embedded in the system. This new DAGEQ is designed so that the gain can be controlled automatically. The automatic control of coefficients and gain empowers real time processing and the improvement of audio quality.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.57-66
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• 2008

An experimental study was performed to evaluate seismic reduction performance and applicability of 3-dimensional floor isolation system to the main control room of nuclear power plant. A friction pendulum system(FPS) and air spring were designed and fabricated for 3-dimensional floor isolation system. Two kind of the partial experimental model of a main control room attached to the FPS and air spring were tested on the shaking table. The experimental model consisted of a control panel, a $2.5m{\times}2.5m$ access floor, four FPS and air springs. The artificial time histories based on the vertical and horizontal floor response spectrums(OBE, SSE) of the main control room were used as the earthquake input signals in the test. Compared to non-isolated system, the seismic response of experimental models using 3-dimensional floor isolation system were shown considerable seismic reduction performance.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.505-510
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• 2016

This paper presents a searching method of corresponding points robust to rotational error for scan-matching used for SLAM(Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) in mobile robot. A differential driving mechanism is one of the most popular type for mobile robot. For driving curved path, this type controls the velocities of each two wheels independently. This case increases a wheel slip of the mobile robot more than the case of straight path driving. And this is the reason of a drifting problem. To handle this problem and improves the performance of scan-matching, this paper proposes a searching method of corresponding points using extraction of a closest point based on rotational radius of the mobile robot. To verify the proposed method, the experiment was conducted using LRF(Laser Range Finder). Then the proposed method is compared with an existing method, which is an existing method based on euclidian closest point. The result of our study reflects that the proposed method can improve the performance of searching corresponding points.

• Journal of Drive and Control
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.36-43
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• 2015

An autonomous vehicle control algorithm based on Ackerman Geometry is known to be reliable in low tire slip situation. However, vehicles at high speed make lateral errors due to high tire slip. In this paper, considering the tire slip of vehicles, the steering angle is determined based on the Ackerman Geometry and is supplemented tire slip angle by the Stanley steering algorithm. In addition, to prevent the tire slip, the algorithm, which restricts steering if a certain level of slip occurs, is used to reduce the lateral error. While many studies have been extended to include vehicle slip, studies also need to be carried out on the tire slip depending on hardware performance. The control algorithm of autonomous vehicles is compensated considering the sensor noise and the performance of steering actuator. Through the various simulations, it was found that the performance of steering actuator was the key factor affecting the performance of autonomous driving. Also, it was verified that the usefulness of steering algorithm considering the tire slip and performance of steering actuator.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.57-67
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• 2015

A large amount of work has been done in the areas of routing, MAC, QoS, capacity, location service, cooperative communication, fault tolerance, mobility models and various applications of mesh networks thanks to their merits of cost-effective way of deployment and flexibility in extending wireline services. Although multi-path routing protocols have been proposed to be used to provide QoS and fault-tolerance, there has not been any significant results discussed that support both in the literature to our best knowledge as they are often required in military and public safety applications. In this paper, we present a novel routing protocol for a mesh network based on the OFDM-TDMA collision-free MAC that discovers and maintains multiple paths that allows retransmitting and forwarding packets that have been blocked due to a link failure using an alternative next-hop node such that the delay-capacity tradeoff is reduced and the reliability is enhanced. Simulation results show that the proposed protocol performs well in terms of both the QoS and delivery ratio.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.97-105
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• 2008

The micro capacitors are passive elements necessary to electronic circuits and wireless portable PAN(personal area network) and Mobile Communications device modules in the baseband circuits in combination with another passive and active devices. As capacitance is proportionally increased with dielectric constant and electrode areas, in addition, inversely decreased the thickness of the dielectric material, thus thin film capacitors are generally seen as a preferable means to achieve high performance and thin film capacitors are used in a variety of functional circuit devices. In this paper, propose dielectric material as AIN(Aluminium nitride) to make micro thin film capacitor, and this capacitor has the MIM(metal-insulator-metal) structure. AIN thin films are widespread applied because they had more excellent properties such as chemical stability, high thermal conductivity, electrical isolation and so on. In addition, AIN films show low frequency response for baseband signal ranges, I-V and C-V electrical characterization of a thin film micro capacitor. The above experimental test and estimated results demonstrate that the thin film capacitor has sufficient and efficient functional performance to be the baseband range frequency of general electronics circuit and passive device applications.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.118-129
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• 2008

This paper describes an IEEE 802.15.4-based hierarchical sensor network model for a VAWS(Vehicle Approach Warning System) which provides the drivers of vehicles approaching a sharp turn with the information about vehicles approaching the same turn from the opposite end. In the proposed network model, a tree-structured topology, that can prolong the lifetime of network is formed in a self-organizing manner by a topology control protocol. A simple but efficient routing protocol, that creates and maintains routing tables based on the network topology organized by the topology control protocol, transports data packets generated from the sensor nodes to the base station which then forwards it to a display processor. These protocols are designed as a network layer extension to the IEEE 802.15.4 MAC. In the simulation, which models a scenario with a sharp turn, it is shown that the proposed network model achieves a high-level performance in terms of both energy efficiency and throughput simultaneously.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2010.08a
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• pp.1-1
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• 2010

핵융합에너지는 1930년대 한스 베테에 의해 태양과 별 에너지의 근원임이 밝혀진 후 소핵 폭탄실험 성공으로 그 위력적인 에너지를 인공적으로 만들 수 있음을 세상에 드러내게 된다. 그 뒤 이 에너지의 평화적인 이용 노력이 시작되었고 1958년 스위스에서 핵융합에너지의 평화적 이용에 대한 첫 국제회의가 열리게 되면서 에너지원으로서의 연구를 통해 냉전시대의 경쟁 대상의 과학기술의 하나로 부각되면서 눈부신 성능 향상을 보여주게 되었다. 아직 여러 어려운 관문이 남아있지만 기후변화와 에너지원 고갈에 의한 새로운 에너지원에 대한 강력한 필요성이 제기되면서 ITER와 같은 대형 국제공동연구시설 건설이 시작되었고 2030년대에는 최초의 핵융합발전소를 건설하려는 꿈도 그려가고 있다. 핵융합에너지를 얻는 방식에는 여러 방법이 시도되었는데 현재는 자기장을 이용해 플라즈마를 핵융합반응이 일어나기에 충분한 시간동안 가두는 자기핵융합방식과 관성으로 플라즈마를 가두는 관성핵융합방식으로 크게 구분할 수 있다. 자기핵융합방식의 경우 플라즈마를 만들고 가열하여 핵융합반응 확률이 높은 고온으로 가열하고 그 조건을 오래 지속시키는 기술들이 필요한데 이 기술들은 오늘날의 거의 모든 극한기술들이 망라되어 적용되는데 초전도, 고주파/ 초고주파, 대전력 공급, 대형 시설 실시간 제어기술, 대규모 신호처리기술, 고온 플라즈마 진단 기술, 대규모 시스템 시뮬레이션 기술 등이 그것이다. 여기에 또한 중요한 기술의 하나로 초고진공 기술이 필요하다. 이러한 기술이 집약되고 서로 통합되어 하나의 목적을 위해 쓰여지도록 고안되고 만들어진 장치가 자기핵융합 장치이며 따라서 현대의 자기핵융합장치들은 굉장히 복잡하며 대형 시설로 지어질 수밖에 없다. 우리나라는 1970년대 말부터 소형의 플라즈마 연구시설을 시작으로 자기핵융합 연구를 시작하면서 인력 양성을 시작하였으며 가속기 등 대형 연구시설이 본격적으로 지어지던 1990년대에 세계적으로 유래가 없는 초전도 자기핵융합장치인 KSTAR장치 건설 프로젝트를 시작하게 되었다. 총 11년이 넘는 건설기간 동안 여러 학교와 연구기관, 그리고 산업체가 참여하여 성공적으로 시운전을 실시하였으며 당당히 세계적인 장치를 통한 핵융합연구 대열에 동참하게 되었다. 이를 통한 기술 개발의 결과로 국제적 공동연구장치 ITER의 건설사업에 참여하게 되었고 KSTAR와 ITER를 통해 핵융합 에너지 상용화 기술 개발을 국가적인 기술개발의 목표로 결정하고 연구개발계획을 전략적으로 세워 진행하고 있다. 이번 논문에서는 자기핵융합의 특징과 연구 동향을 통해 우리나라의 기술 수준을 조망하고 특히 진공 기술 분야와의 상호 의존적 영향 분석을 통해 공동의 발전 방향을 모색해 보려고 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.11
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• pp.2059-2071
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• 2007

If the correct structure of Web site is known, the information provider can discover users# behavior patterns and characteristics for better services, and users can find useful information easily and exactly. There may be some difficulties, however, to extract the exact structure of Web site because documents one the Web tend to be changed frequently. This paper proposes new method for extracting such Web structure automatically. The method consists of two phases. The first phase extracts the hyperlinks among Web documents, and then constructs a directed graph to represent the structure of Web site. It has limitations, however, to discover the hyperlinks in Flash and Java Applet. The second phase is to find such hidden hyperlinks by using Web access log. It fist extracts the click streams from the access log, and then extract the hidden hyperlinks by comparing with the directed graph. Several experiments have been conducted to evaluate the proposed method.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.359-367
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• 2002

In this paper, a new embedded wavelet packet image coder algorithm is proposed for an effective image coder using correlation between partitioned coefficients. This new algorithm presents parent-child relationship for reducing image reconstruction error using relations between individual frequency sub-bands. By parent-child relationship, every coefficient is partitioned and encoded for the zerotree data structure. It is shown that the proposed wavelet packet image coder algorithm achieves low bit rates and rate-distortion. It also demonstrates higher PSNR under the same bit rate and an improvement in image compression time. The perfect rate control is compared with the conventional method. These results show that the encoding and decoding processes of the proposed coder are simpler and more accurate than the conventional ones for texture images that include many mid and high-frequency elements such as aerial and satellite photograph images. The experimental results imply the possibility that the proposed method can be applied to real-time vision system, on-line image processing and image fusion which require smaller file size and better resolution.